June 22nd this year marks 73 years since the HMT Empire Windrush docked at Tilbury in Essex. It arrived in 1948 carrying nearly 500 history-making passengers from the West Indies, all Commonwealth citizens arriving to live, work, and raise families in post-war Britain.
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